In a June 2022 report, the United States Institute of Peace said, “Although contemporary narratives of Bangladesh often emphasize its secular founding,
Many detractors argued Bangladesh, as it hurtled from one disaster to another, was not a sustainable country . Mujib s death sealed the fate of democracy as two successive military dictators Generals Ziaur Rahman and H.M Ershad launched Bangladesh back on the road to Pakistan-type military-sponsored theocracy by legitimising Islamist parties and declaring Islam as the state religion, undoing secularism as a basic precept enshrined in Bangladesh s 1972 Constitution. No wonder, American author Lawrence Lifschultz sub-titled his book on Bangladesh as the
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